Martinsburg gazette. (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1886-1887, 1887-02-25
DESTRUCTIVE STORMS.
i BRIDGE IN ROCHE 5TER HL3WN
DOWN, WITH LOSS OF LIFE.
Two Trains Overturned BY Billiards ii
the West.

Al high wind from the south swept down
the Genesee River channel at Rochester on
Friday, It caught two large polss which carry
telegraph wires across the Court street bridge.
and when they fell they carried two spans
of the bridge down with them. Persons
in an Office on the bank of the river saw An
ME Graham go down with the wreck into
tho food. The river was high, and tho
torrent carried her rapsd,y away The
last they saw of her he was passing
beneath tho canal aaueduct. Other
persons saw man carried away
with the bridge. He was seen going down
the river, Eaking frantic but uns iccessful
efforts to catch plank floating near him.
Three other employees Of W 3. Kimball ~
Co. were missing and there were fears that
they too were swept down the river.
In penyer, Col on the same day. the wind
blew at the rate OF sixty miles an hour and
many buildings were unroofed sEosestacks,
chinineys, and telegraph and telephone poles
leyeled with the ground, AMI plate glass
windows broken.
On the Denver and Rio Graude Railway,
four miles north of Colorado Springs, the
north bound alt Lake express, consisting OF
two sleeping cars, two passenger coaches,
and q baggage o. i'd mail Car, was blown from
the track at three O'clock a. M, and the mail
ar AMI its contents were destroyed by fire.
Had the accident happened while the train
vas on b gh enhancement q short distance
further on, the loss of life would have been
great. Fortunately no one was iniu ed al
freight train Of twenty cars on side track
wa ting for the express to pass was also de-
railed by the wind, and the cars were badly
daliaged
The pa senger train of three coaches which
left Denver on the Denver and South Park
Road for Morrison, at eight o'clock, was
lifted from the track by terrific blast and
hurle down an embanknent twelve miles
from the city One passenger had
his leg broken, and Others were
bruised Near Como, on the same
road, the Leadville express was blown over q
bridge and nearly all of the passengers and
train men were severely injured and the
coaches badly wrecked. Allincoming trains
on the various roads were from five to ten
hours late on account of the Storm
The worst storm of the winter has been
prevailing Throughout the North west to-day
The telegraph service west Of Omaha
and st Paul was completely cut OFF,
At Minneapolis and st. Paul nearly all
trains on the lines north. west and south of
Minneapolis were abandoned. The Northern
Pacific, Manitoba, and the Hastings and Da-
kota lines were entirely blocked. Nearly all
the street railway lines in ST. Paul and Min
nea. oils were blocked.
In Chicago the streets and sidewalks ia
the northern part OF the town were invisi-
bic, and the cellars were filed with water.
! he water in the yards of some houses was
several feet dees. Al severe thunder and
lightning storm prevailed
a Bloomington I'LL special SAYS that
storm remarkable for that section ragged,
lasting three hours. The electrical disturb
ance was great, the lightning being terrific
TRAINED heavily for two hours Heavy hail
was reported from the northern part Of the
county The storm was felt all over central
Illinois. Il bad rained almost incess antly
fer week. The streams were all high.
In New York city and vicinity one Of the
heaviest storms of the winter RACED for many
hours IL was accompanied by thunder and
lightning an unusual occurrence at
this season Lightning struck the
biggest warehouse of the Aneri-
can DOCK and Trust Company. at
Tompkinsville. Staten Island, AMI it caught
fire. The building on fire was numbered
four IN the list of sixteen cotton warehouses
extending along $50 feet of bulkhead The
flames were communicated to warehouses
n, Y, II, 3, and 9, and they were all de-
Stroy, together with $4,000 bales of cotton.
yaluel az So1,60o The total loss is estimated
at Sa50,000.